March 26, 2025 • 14 mins
Do you think you're happy in your life? Take Leighton Campbell's Happiness Equation quiz: https://www.yourhappinesseq.com/
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Get your head us together, and we're going to stop
to party.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Start. I'm ready to party.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
The Elvis Duran after Party.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
It's the after Party podcast today, kind of fun. Gandhi's
bringing in someone like a show and tell. Yes, don't.
We don't know at all who who your guests are,
but we're about to find out. Yes, Okay, go, okay.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
This is my friend Layton Campbell.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Hi, Layton.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I've known Layton for one hundred and twenty years, probably
for a very long time.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
You guys look good.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Yeah, great, for a very long time. And he is
doing something cool. He wrote a book called Your Happiness Equation.
As you can tell by his sweatshirt. I love it,
and he brought us gifts by the way he brought
us much.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Cool step but the way I'm happy just looking at
your at your logo, awesome, happy to be here. It's
happiness all around. We need more haveiness in our world.
So something tells me that's where we're going.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Yeah, So I'll let him explain ins and outs of it.
But the Happiness Equation you can take online. It's seven
quick questions that kind of gauge where you are at
in life, and it gives you a score, what your
happiness score is, and then he gets into the science
behind happiness, why some people are happy, why some people
aren't happy. And I know that that's something we talk
about all the time. So I thought I would bring
him in for show and tell and we could get
(01:22):
to it.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I love it, great idea. Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yeah, So may to kind of introduce the basic ideas.
So I create an equation to measure happiness. You answer
seven quick questions. That's online for free. Anybody can do it,
and at the end of that process you get a
happiness score on a zero to one hundred point scale.
And what the score actually means, it's not a measure
of your emotional level of happiness at the time you
(01:48):
take the test.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
What it is.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
It's a measure of the strength of the structures that
you have in your life that have the capacity to
produce happiness.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Okay, yeah, let's go.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
It's cool stuff. Do you want to ask them to
seven questions? I mean, you won't get the score unless
you actually do it online because it's from like A
to F. Oh, but I can tell you what my
happiness score is.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Any guesses one out of one hundred?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah, one to one hundred three. I had a ninety
five nine. Yeah, what we hold on? Why are you also.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Shocked by that? No? No, I can see that you were
very happy. She's She's one of the happiest people I know.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
He's always happy.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah, I can see why.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
But I want to ask you something.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Did you talk to Laton about how you answered and
he sort of described you why those answers?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
No, we haven't even gotten to all of all of
my answers yet.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yeah, we haven't done that yet. I figured we do
some of that on air at some point. But yeah,
the There's seven questions are very simple, but it talks
about things like, do you have meaningful relationships in your life?
You know, do you belong to meaningful groups? What is
the value that you bring to those groups? Do you
feel your life has a purpose? How are you on
(03:02):
achieving your purpose in life? So these are some of
the questions that come out that are asked, and your
responses determine your score. Now, knowing Meta and knowing her
life and knowing what she's doing, when she told me
she got a really high score, I'm not really surprised
because I know she has really deep connections with people,
and I know how she is so not surprised at
all by her score. Her score is better than my score.
(03:22):
I score around in eighty four.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Why so sad at all?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
It's just the number two.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
At the end of the day.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
The most important thing is to take the question, you know,
take the quiz, answer the questions, and see which one
of these ping you as you know what, I've kind
of like not been giving as much as I could
to the groups that I belong to. Maybe I should
start thinking about that. Or gratitude being another one. It's like,
you know, I've been going around the world and maybe
(03:52):
thinking about myself a lot and the things that are
affecting me, not really having my intenna open for all
the other, you know, people who may not be in
a situation that I'm in, and being grateful for that
and potentially doing something to help as well.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I definitely would encourage everyone hearing this to go to
the website and take the test. And so rather than
you asking these questions, talk latent about the findings that
led you to these questions. Obviously meaningful relationships, being a
part of a group, what is your value in that group?
(04:28):
These kinds of things, Where did you come up with
the findings and the answers. Crazy story.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
So it was during COVID my kids were separated from
their friends, extended family. It's just a crazy time for
kids adults. It was just like bonkers. Everybody knows that.
So I saw that their happiness, that their emotions, their
affect was just off, and I wanted to have a
conversation with them about it. But I didn't want it
to be like a lecture of like Dad's telling me
(04:55):
of how to live my life kind of a thing.
So I was like, hey, guys, let's see if we
can come up with an equation for happiness. It I
just it came out of nowhere. It's not like I
planned it or anything. So we're sitting there, they're throwing
out ideas. I'm quarterbacking it. At the end of the conversation,
I look down at what I have and I'm like,
this is actually pretty impactful. But it was very, very rudimentary.
(05:18):
So a week later, I'm part of a business networking
group and I was an educational coordinator. So every week,
out of an hour and a half meeting, I had
to do a four minute educational topic on anything I
want business life anything that could be beneficial to the members.
So I took that week to kind of polish it
up a little bit. It was still very rudimentary, but
I did that presentation on your happiness equation. I was
(05:40):
blown away. There's forty people in the chapter. I've known
these people for a very long time, and almost every
single one of them called me, texted me, emailed me,
came up to me afterward and said how impactful it
was to them. And after having that kind of response,
I was like, man, I gotta probably do something with this.
And that was about three and a half years ago.
Four years at this point book was written, book towards
(06:03):
had trying to get the word out.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
That's the backstorre. Wow, here he.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Is, so how happy do you think you are?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Well? You know, well, if I use the sample questions
that were given a second ago, I think I've got
some work to do. Without giving it a number, absolutely,
I think and all of those different questions you were asking, uh, okay,
I could do better. There give us some of the
questions again if you don't.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Mind, Yeah, so real quick. First one is are your
basic humanity's being met? Yes?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Or no?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Second one is you do do you belong to any
meaningful groups that meet regularly? Yes or no? Do you
a million percent accounts.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Even if they pay you to be here.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Even if they pay you to be here sometimes for
people like the people you work with, that it's like
a meaningful group. It has to be meaningful to you.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
It's very meaningful to me. Yeah, so they stop. You're
the only things about makes me unhappy?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
So the next one is on an A plus to
F scale. How do you rate the value that you
bring to those groups? You know what?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
At least it gets you to think exactly. Think your
value is different every day, don't you think some days
to day plus some day we're n f I, Daniel,
do you ever come in here and go, you know what,
maybe I'm not contributing enough today? Of course, I think
we all do, I know, not me. Honestly, it's how
you perceive your value, not how others perceive your value.
(07:36):
How you just want to make sure see your value honestly.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Honestly is important to self examination. So the more honestly
you are with yourself, the better you know your potential
results are.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Wow. Okay, because these are the things we don't typically
think about. I don't think about my value to a group. No,
just going there to the group and we do our
thing and I leave. I don't think about the value
that's left there. It would make me try to be
more valuable.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Sure, And it's for the It's for the groups that
are important to you. I'm in all types of groups.
Some might in just because for various situations I had no,
you know, decision to be in it. But it's only
for the groups that are important to you that this
question applies. If a group's not important to you, it
doesn't matter your value. If the group is important to you,
then your value is very important.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Okay, what's the weather for? What are the other four?
And then we need I want to get to the
website because I want everyone to go visit you.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
But sure, please going to blow up my website?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Which? All right?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
So the fourth one is on an A plus the
F scale. How would you rate your gratitude? Okay?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
The fifth one is when a meaningful situation does not
go as expected negative impact on your emotions. Last, and
now you have three options short time, moderate time.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Or long time.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Okay, that one trips me up. Okay, full disclosure to
sixth one is do you believe your life has a purpose?
And the seventh and final one is on an A
plus to f scale, how would you rate the value?
How would you rate your progress to achieving your purpose
in life?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Wow? Those are also happen very thought provoking at very least.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
So if you don't find purpose in life, then that
last one is going to be a doozy too.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Well, interesting that you bring that up. I accounted for
that because I know there's billions of people in the
world and not everyone believes life has a purpose. So
if you don't believe life has a purpose, it does
not impact your score.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
If you do believe life has a purpose, then it
will impact your score. Okay.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
So, by the way, keep in mind, reaching back to
the very beginning, this is about happiness. Yes, so you
definitely are making connections between these sectors of your of
your website, or the question the questionnaire is they connect
to happiness. So your value in life where you find
(10:00):
yourself in your life in a group, letting things go
faster than you should, which I'm pretty sure we're all
pretty guilty of that. Yeah, So happiness isn't always just
running through a field of daisies and playing with puppies
now also deeper, deeper things to be thinking about.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Yeah, yeah, the emotion of happiness. I make a in
my book, I talk about a delineation between the emotion
of happiness and the type of happiness that I'm referring to.
Happiness I'm referring to is a long lasting, deep sense
of happiness. It's a sense of inner peace and satisfaction
at the deepest level of yourself, which is very different
(10:38):
than the emotion. And studies show that if you chase
the emotion of happiness, you're almost doomed to not be
happy because emotions are fleeting, they come and go, and
you're going to constantly be running around trying to be happy.
You know, it's a fool's Errand however, if you build
(10:59):
the structures in life that have a byproduct of happiness,
that's where the magic is.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Conversation of late has been about serotonin, the serotonin highs.
I'm sure I'm assuming this is all tied into that
as well. Yeah, okay, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Doctor Anna Lemke, she wrote a book dopamin Nation, and
I reference her work in my book because it's it
specifically ties into this in terms of the best ways
to go about achieving a life of happiness. She doesn't
really talk about it in her work necessarily, but people
try and pursue happiness in all different types of ways,
and just through life and reading and being her all
(11:34):
over the world, seeing the ways that have done it
that are successful and long lasting, and the ways that
really get people into trouble, like that dopamine serotonin thing
that you mentioned that gets people into.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Trouble, like Instagram likes and the instant gratification of getting
exactly what you want as soon as you want it.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
And scary porn to your porn. I'm not the only one,
what up, Nate. So basically, if I do this, I
do the equation and I get my sum.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I guess you add it all up.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I can see where I'm deficient, right, I can see
what would make me happier than I'm not doing enough
of essentially according to this, right, correct. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
So the idea is you take the quiz and you
look at the answers that you have given and usually
and I think it's come out already when I was
going through, and you're thinking, wow.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
I could probably do a little better there.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Yeah, And that's all that it's doing now. My book
gives ideas resources, things that have worked for me, things
that have worked for other people. But that stuff is everywhere.
If you see something that you feel you could or
you want to improve on the information, there's no lack
of information out there. So the idea, you take the quiz,
you see what pings you, and then you start working
(12:55):
on it.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Love it. By the way, this is Leyton Campbell your
Happiness Equation. The website. We got to get everyone to
go over there. Whathi's the website?
Speaker 3 (13:03):
The website is your Happiness EQ dot com.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Your Happiness EQ dot com.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Okay, I want to know what everybody's scores and here
to do that?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Well, yeah, I'm gonna do this this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I think a level maybe I got a little nervous
here because after you started talking about it, I'm like
there could be a level of delusion that was involved
with my score because if it's what do you think
your contribution is today? And I'm like, amazing, one hundred
person and everything I do that could be incorrect. I
gonna have to go reevaluate this.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
So the narcissists do really well.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
They do amazing, They do amazing it's not a perfect scenario.
It's an idea to get conversation.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Going and get your about it. I mean, I'm not
as curious about that number as I am about just
things to think about exactly. That's I love that excellent.
Thank you for being here your happiness eq dot com
because the name of it is your happiness equation. It's
(14:00):
all making sense almost. Thank you late. We appreciate you
from minute. Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
The Elvis Duran after party m HM
Get your head us together, and we're going to stop
to party.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Start. I'm ready to party.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
The Elvis Duran after Party.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
It's the after Party podcast today, kind of fun. Gandhi's
bringing in someone like a show and tell. Yes, don't.
We don't know at all who who your guests are,
but we're about to find out. Yes, Okay, go, okay.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
This is my friend Layton Campbell.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Hi, Layton.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I've known Layton for one hundred and twenty years, probably
for a very long time.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
You guys look good.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Yeah, great, for a very long time. And he is
doing something cool. He wrote a book called Your Happiness Equation.
As you can tell by his sweatshirt. I love it,
and he brought us gifts by the way he brought
us much.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Cool step but the way I'm happy just looking at
your at your logo, awesome, happy to be here. It's
happiness all around. We need more haveiness in our world.
So something tells me that's where we're going.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Yeah, So I'll let him explain ins and outs of it.
But the Happiness Equation you can take online. It's seven
quick questions that kind of gauge where you are at
in life, and it gives you a score, what your
happiness score is, and then he gets into the science
behind happiness, why some people are happy, why some people
aren't happy. And I know that that's something we talk
about all the time. So I thought I would bring
him in for show and tell and we could get
(01:22):
to it.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I love it, great idea. Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yeah, So may to kind of introduce the basic ideas.
So I create an equation to measure happiness. You answer
seven quick questions. That's online for free. Anybody can do it,
and at the end of that process you get a
happiness score on a zero to one hundred point scale.
And what the score actually means, it's not a measure
of your emotional level of happiness at the time you
(01:48):
take the test.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
What it is.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
It's a measure of the strength of the structures that
you have in your life that have the capacity to
produce happiness.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Okay, yeah, let's go.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
It's cool stuff. Do you want to ask them to
seven questions? I mean, you won't get the score unless
you actually do it online because it's from like A
to F. Oh, but I can tell you what my
happiness score is.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Any guesses one out of one hundred?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah, one to one hundred three. I had a ninety
five nine. Yeah, what we hold on? Why are you also.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Shocked by that? No? No, I can see that you were
very happy. She's She's one of the happiest people I know.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
He's always happy.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah, I can see why.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
But I want to ask you something.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Did you talk to Laton about how you answered and
he sort of described you why those answers?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
No, we haven't even gotten to all of all of
my answers yet.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yeah, we haven't done that yet. I figured we do
some of that on air at some point. But yeah,
the There's seven questions are very simple, but it talks
about things like, do you have meaningful relationships in your life?
You know, do you belong to meaningful groups? What is
the value that you bring to those groups? Do you
feel your life has a purpose? How are you on
(03:02):
achieving your purpose in life? So these are some of
the questions that come out that are asked, and your
responses determine your score. Now, knowing Meta and knowing her
life and knowing what she's doing, when she told me
she got a really high score, I'm not really surprised
because I know she has really deep connections with people,
and I know how she is so not surprised at
all by her score. Her score is better than my score.
(03:22):
I score around in eighty four.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Why so sad at all?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
It's just the number two.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
At the end of the day.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
The most important thing is to take the question, you know,
take the quiz, answer the questions, and see which one
of these ping you as you know what, I've kind
of like not been giving as much as I could
to the groups that I belong to. Maybe I should
start thinking about that. Or gratitude being another one. It's like,
you know, I've been going around the world and maybe
(03:52):
thinking about myself a lot and the things that are
affecting me, not really having my intenna open for all
the other, you know, people who may not be in
a situation that I'm in, and being grateful for that
and potentially doing something to help as well.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
I definitely would encourage everyone hearing this to go to
the website and take the test. And so rather than
you asking these questions, talk latent about the findings that
led you to these questions. Obviously meaningful relationships, being a
part of a group, what is your value in that group?
(04:28):
These kinds of things, Where did you come up with
the findings and the answers. Crazy story.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
So it was during COVID my kids were separated from
their friends, extended family. It's just a crazy time for
kids adults. It was just like bonkers. Everybody knows that.
So I saw that their happiness, that their emotions, their
affect was just off, and I wanted to have a
conversation with them about it. But I didn't want it
to be like a lecture of like Dad's telling me
(04:55):
of how to live my life kind of a thing.
So I was like, hey, guys, let's see if we
can come up with an equation for happiness. It I
just it came out of nowhere. It's not like I
planned it or anything. So we're sitting there, they're throwing
out ideas. I'm quarterbacking it. At the end of the conversation,
I look down at what I have and I'm like,
this is actually pretty impactful. But it was very, very rudimentary.
(05:18):
So a week later, I'm part of a business networking
group and I was an educational coordinator. So every week,
out of an hour and a half meeting, I had
to do a four minute educational topic on anything I
want business life anything that could be beneficial to the members.
So I took that week to kind of polish it
up a little bit. It was still very rudimentary, but
I did that presentation on your happiness equation. I was
(05:40):
blown away. There's forty people in the chapter. I've known
these people for a very long time, and almost every
single one of them called me, texted me, emailed me,
came up to me afterward and said how impactful it
was to them. And after having that kind of response,
I was like, man, I gotta probably do something with this.
And that was about three and a half years ago.
Four years at this point book was written, book towards
(06:03):
had trying to get the word out.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
That's the backstorre. Wow, here he.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Is, so how happy do you think you are?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Well? You know, well, if I use the sample questions
that were given a second ago, I think I've got
some work to do. Without giving it a number, absolutely,
I think and all of those different questions you were asking, uh, okay,
I could do better. There give us some of the
questions again if you don't.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Mind, Yeah, so real quick. First one is are your
basic humanity's being met? Yes?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Or no?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Second one is you do do you belong to any
meaningful groups that meet regularly? Yes or no? Do you
a million percent accounts.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Even if they pay you to be here.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Even if they pay you to be here sometimes for
people like the people you work with, that it's like
a meaningful group. It has to be meaningful to you.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
It's very meaningful to me. Yeah, so they stop. You're
the only things about makes me unhappy?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
So the next one is on an A plus to
F scale. How do you rate the value that you
bring to those groups? You know what?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
At least it gets you to think exactly. Think your
value is different every day, don't you think some days
to day plus some day we're n f I, Daniel,
do you ever come in here and go, you know what,
maybe I'm not contributing enough today? Of course, I think
we all do, I know, not me. Honestly, it's how
you perceive your value, not how others perceive your value.
(07:36):
How you just want to make sure see your value honestly.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Honestly is important to self examination. So the more honestly
you are with yourself, the better you know your potential
results are.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Wow. Okay, because these are the things we don't typically
think about. I don't think about my value to a group. No,
just going there to the group and we do our
thing and I leave. I don't think about the value
that's left there. It would make me try to be
more valuable.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Sure, And it's for the It's for the groups that
are important to you. I'm in all types of groups.
Some might in just because for various situations I had no,
you know, decision to be in it. But it's only
for the groups that are important to you that this
question applies. If a group's not important to you, it
doesn't matter your value. If the group is important to you,
then your value is very important.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Okay, what's the weather for? What are the other four?
And then we need I want to get to the
website because I want everyone to go visit you.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
But sure, please going to blow up my website?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Which? All right?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
So the fourth one is on an A plus the
F scale. How would you rate your gratitude? Okay?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
The fifth one is when a meaningful situation does not
go as expected negative impact on your emotions. Last, and
now you have three options short time, moderate time.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Or long time.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Okay, that one trips me up. Okay, full disclosure to
sixth one is do you believe your life has a purpose?
And the seventh and final one is on an A
plus to f scale, how would you rate the value?
How would you rate your progress to achieving your purpose
in life?
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Wow? Those are also happen very thought provoking at very least.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
So if you don't find purpose in life, then that
last one is going to be a doozy too.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Well, interesting that you bring that up. I accounted for
that because I know there's billions of people in the
world and not everyone believes life has a purpose. So
if you don't believe life has a purpose, it does
not impact your score.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
If you do believe life has a purpose, then it
will impact your score. Okay.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
So, by the way, keep in mind, reaching back to
the very beginning, this is about happiness. Yes, so you
definitely are making connections between these sectors of your of
your website, or the question the questionnaire is they connect
to happiness. So your value in life where you find
(10:00):
yourself in your life in a group, letting things go
faster than you should, which I'm pretty sure we're all
pretty guilty of that. Yeah, So happiness isn't always just
running through a field of daisies and playing with puppies
now also deeper, deeper things to be thinking about.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Yeah, yeah, the emotion of happiness. I make a in
my book, I talk about a delineation between the emotion
of happiness and the type of happiness that I'm referring to.
Happiness I'm referring to is a long lasting, deep sense
of happiness. It's a sense of inner peace and satisfaction
at the deepest level of yourself, which is very different
(10:38):
than the emotion. And studies show that if you chase
the emotion of happiness, you're almost doomed to not be
happy because emotions are fleeting, they come and go, and
you're going to constantly be running around trying to be happy.
You know, it's a fool's Errand however, if you build
(10:59):
the structures in life that have a byproduct of happiness,
that's where the magic is.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Conversation of late has been about serotonin, the serotonin highs.
I'm sure I'm assuming this is all tied into that
as well. Yeah, okay, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Doctor Anna Lemke, she wrote a book dopamin Nation, and
I reference her work in my book because it's it
specifically ties into this in terms of the best ways
to go about achieving a life of happiness. She doesn't
really talk about it in her work necessarily, but people
try and pursue happiness in all different types of ways,
and just through life and reading and being her all
(11:34):
over the world, seeing the ways that have done it
that are successful and long lasting, and the ways that
really get people into trouble, like that dopamine serotonin thing
that you mentioned that gets people into.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Trouble, like Instagram likes and the instant gratification of getting
exactly what you want as soon as you want it.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
And scary porn to your porn. I'm not the only one,
what up, Nate. So basically, if I do this, I
do the equation and I get my sum.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I guess you add it all up.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I can see where I'm deficient, right, I can see
what would make me happier than I'm not doing enough
of essentially according to this, right, correct. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
So the idea is you take the quiz and you
look at the answers that you have given and usually
and I think it's come out already when I was
going through, and you're thinking, wow.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
I could probably do a little better there.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Yeah, And that's all that it's doing now. My book
gives ideas resources, things that have worked for me, things
that have worked for other people. But that stuff is everywhere.
If you see something that you feel you could or
you want to improve on the information, there's no lack
of information out there. So the idea, you take the quiz,
you see what pings you, and then you start working
(12:55):
on it.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Love it. By the way, this is Leyton Campbell your
Happiness Equation. The website. We got to get everyone to
go over there. Whathi's the website?
Speaker 3 (13:03):
The website is your Happiness EQ dot com.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Your Happiness EQ dot com.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Okay, I want to know what everybody's scores and here
to do that?
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Well, yeah, I'm gonna do this this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I think a level maybe I got a little nervous
here because after you started talking about it, I'm like
there could be a level of delusion that was involved
with my score because if it's what do you think
your contribution is today? And I'm like, amazing, one hundred
person and everything I do that could be incorrect. I
gonna have to go reevaluate this.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
So the narcissists do really well.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
They do amazing, They do amazing it's not a perfect scenario.
It's an idea to get conversation.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Going and get your about it. I mean, I'm not
as curious about that number as I am about just
things to think about exactly. That's I love that excellent.
Thank you for being here your happiness eq dot com
because the name of it is your happiness equation. It's
(14:00):
all making sense almost. Thank you late. We appreciate you
from minute. Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
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